[Tex/LaTex] Footnotes overlapping with page number

Question

I'm using fancyhdr and having trouble distancing the page number(positioned center of the page in the footer) from the footnotes on a page of my documentation. I have posted a couple of images showing how the footer should look like and what my problem is. Please provide a solution to this problem.

Thank you.

This is the code that I have been working on,

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\thispagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}% No header rule
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}% No footer rule
\fancyfoot[C]{Acknowledgements reflect the views of the author and are not endorsed by committee members or Oklahoma State University.{\thepage}}%
\pagebreak

Right now, the page number "iii" is being displayed at the end of the footer. I would like the roman number to be displayed as shown in image 1.

Answer 1

My guess from the code snippet is, that there is a clash of the entries for \fancyfoot:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand*{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand*{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot[L]{Acknowledgements reflect the views of the author and are not
endorsed by committee members or Oklahoma State University.}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\setcounter{page}{3}
\null
\end{document}

The issue can be solved by moving the left entry below by an empty line to get the requested outcome:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand*{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand*{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot[L]{\mbox{}\\Acknowledgements reflect the views of the author
and are not endorsed by committee members or Oklahoma State University.}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\setcounter{page}{3}
\null
\end{document}

Example with smaller font size for the acknowledgement text:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\renewcommand*{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand*{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyfoot[L]{%
  \vspace{.6\baselineskip}
  \footnotesize
  Acknowledgements reflect the views of the author and
  are not endorsed by committee members or Oklahoma State University.%
}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\setcounter{page}{3}
\null
\end{document}